grover@sed170.hac.com (Dean Grover (ird)) (01/28/89)
I have a SCSI disk with partition sd0b currently unused. This partition was 35 Mb of swap space on a Sun 3/50 SunOS 3.5. The disk was moved onto another system that doesn't need that space for swap. Since that space is no longer used, I plan to make a new filesystem on it and use it as a regular partition. If I do that, can I later use it for swap again ? Is anything necessary to enable the swap space to be used (other than changing the swap partition in the kernel) ? Thanks in advance. Dean Grover * Hughes Aircraft Company * adgrover@hac2arpa.hac.com or * grover@sed170.HAC.COM [[ Nope. There is nothing analagous to "newfs" for swap partitions. Just tell the kernel to swap on it (but don't try to mount it as a file system at the same time!). Note that this does not apply to /export/swap on a 4.0.x server. --wnl ]]